Chelsea Handler Quotes

With this job, always traveling on the plane and everything, I thought it would be really difficult to quit drinking on my own because you're always in situations where it's acceptable to have drinks. So I decided right after a show that I was going to go into treatment. I Googled a bunch of places, and I found this place that I went to in Cape Town, South Africa, called Stepping Stones. I stayed there for a month. It was really difficult-lots of talking and crying.

I formed a new group called Alcoholics-Unanimous. If you don't feel like a drink, you ring another member and he comes over to persuade you.

I'm part of AA. I have a sponsor. I have great, great friends who I love and who love me.

If you ask me, I think 12-step programs are perfectly valid, can be an enormous help. But it depends on the individual.

I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher.

How am I going to listen to that horrible noise I make without a gram of coke and a couple of double Jack Daniels?

Have you ever been to an AA meeting? No wonder these people are alcoholics - I've never needed a drink more badly in my life.

I look up the telephone number of Alcoholics Anonymous. Then, my hands shaking, I open the bar and drink the leftover whiskey, gin and vermouth-whatever I can lay my shaking hands on.

I've been a practicing alcoholic and drug addict for most of my life.

David Hasselhoff was hospitalized after falling off the wagon again. He probably got used to drinking too much, because for years he never had to worry about driving anywhere - his car drove itself.

I hate alcoholics and AA (alcoholics anonymous). If you can't drink responsibly, don't drink at all. Don't go to meetings, whine about your character flaws and blame the fact that you are a sociopath on booze.

When I got sober, that was 1990.

I remember being very young and going to AA meetings with my father in Brooklyn. I thought it was fun because they served hot chocolate and cookies.

My spiritual system is 12-step programs. That's the only one I've ever had. I didn't have one before that.

One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.

My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

I had what AA calls 'a convincer' - which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.

I do take responsibility for it. I admit to having a problem. I have been to numerous treatment centers.

She hits me and she beats me and she drinks. My mom is an alcoholic.

I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.

Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.

To me, it is like a diabetic with insulin. If that diabetic stops taking insulin, they will die, and I believe that if I don't follow the 12-step programme, I will regress, and that could eventually be the death of me.

I got sober for good on December 7, 2008.

I don't object to AA at all - only the programs that insist that it's the only way to get clean and to stay clean.

One of my dearest friends is alive only because of AA. But it doesn't help a lot of people. And everyone is different, and everyone needs different kinds of treatments.